A collaboration

Devdutt
Pattanaik

India's most widely read mythologist, and a wardrobe built from the stories he tells.

Why this collection exists

Myth is not something that happened. It is something that keeps happening.

Most mythology on clothing stops at decoration — a deity, a motif, a symbol lifted from its context and printed flat. This collection starts from the opposite end. Each piece begins with a specific narrative, and the design exists to carry that narrative rather than to ornament it.

Working with Devdutt Pattanaik meant every reference had to hold up: the right story, attributed to the right tradition, drawn in the visual language that tradition actually uses. What you wear should survive being asked about.

The collaborator

Devdutt Pattanaik

A mythologist, author and speaker who has spent decades making India's stories legible to a modern audience — not as relics to be preserved, but as living material that still explains how people think and behave.

His involvement here goes past a name on a label. The narratives, their sources and the traditions they are drawn from were worked through together, so that each piece can be traced back to something real.

Three of the stories

Kadali Vana

The Story On the slopes of Gandhamadana, deep in a forest of banana trees, Bhima went looking for a flower. He found a monkey instead. Old, half-asleep, tail stretched carelessly across the path. Move it yourself, the creature said. I am too tired. Bhima — strongest of the Pandavas, breaker of armies — bent down...

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Rakshak

There are symbols that travel farther than borders.They do not belong to one land, one people, or one book.They belong to the human need to feel protected. One such symbol is the Hand of Fatima or the Hamza, known across cultures as a palm raised against the unseen. Some call it Hamza.Some see it as...

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Navagunjara- Embroidered

In the forests of exile, when certainty had abandoned him and questions burned brighter than answers, Arjuna encountered something that did not belong to reason. A being stood before him. Not one creature, but many. Not chaos, but a deeper order. A form composed of nine: the head of a rooster, the trunk of an...

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In his words